Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fictional accounts of the hair-raising heroics of a modern policewoman are all wrong, according to Miss Elizabeth Taylor, who packs a gun, but never uses it, in her role as the only woman on Cambridge's Crime Prevention Bureau...
Since the installation of the Bureau, however, the nature of Miss Taylor's labors have changed somewhat. Her headquarters have moved from Cambridge's pavements to her own home-like office, designed to make fearful youngsters feel comfortable...
Miss Taylor's present assertion that she is not so much a "law-enforcing as a protective and preventive agent--a social worker in the police department," is the characteristic attitude of the entire bureau, whose function, according to Lieutenant Thomas J. Stokes, Bureau chief, "is to correct by adjustment...
...longer are youthful first offenders whisked away to a foreboding reformatory. When a Cambridge policeman turns in a complaint card, the Crime Prevention Bureau, not the municipal court takes over. A "pre-court" session is held, and Miss Taylor and her co-workers probe for the causes of the child's mistakes...
...Bats. Kennedy and Treasurer Jimmy Adichi, 25, American-born Japanese veteran of the Italian campaign, soon ran into trouble. Apartment superintendents, paid by established companies for exclusive rights to peddle milk in their buildings, barred the Servicemen's Dairy. Kennedy threatened to turn them in to the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He had shrewdly suspected that they had not reported their take on their income tax. The superintendents gave in. When the C.I.O. tied up all other dairies in a strike, the Servicemen went right on delivering. The union threatened violence. Kennedy passed out baseball bats...